题目
More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransfgord and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that knowledge to a new situation but a quality was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called "preparation for future learning." The researches asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to protect bald eagles from extinction. Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality (through the college students had better spelling skills). From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.
The researches decided to go deeper, however. They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans. On this task, they found large differences. College students focused on critical issues of interdependence between eagles("How big are they?" and "What do they eat?"). The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking. They had learned how to learn.
Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondly schools. At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people's scientific inquiry We found that when we taught participants to ask "What if?" and "How can?" questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit-asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better interpretations of their results. Specially, their questions became more comprehensive at the new exhibit. Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question. Asking juicy questions appears to be a transferable skill for deepening collaborative inquiry into the science content found in exhibits.
This type of learning is not confined to museums of institutional settings. Informal learning environment tolerate failure better than schools. Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form. and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum. But people must acquire this skill somewhere. Our society depend on them being able to make critical decisions about their own medical treatment, says, or what we must do about global energy needs and demands. For that, we have a robust informal system that gives no grades, takes all comers, and is available even on holidays and weekends.
56.What is traditional educators' interpretation of the search outcome mentioned in the first paragraph?
A.Students are not able to apply prior knowledge to new problems
B.College students are no better than fifth graders in memorizing issues.
C.Education has not paid enough attention to major environmental issues.
D.Educated has failed to lead students to think about major scientific ideas.
57.In what way are college students different from children?
A.They have learned to think critically
B.They are concerned about social issues
C.They are curious about specific features.
D.They have learned to work independently
58.What is benefit of asking questions with no ready answers?
A.It arouse students' interest in things around them.
B.It cultivates students' ability to make scientific inquiries.
C.It trains students' ability to design scientific experiments.
D.It helps students realize not every question has an answer
59.What is said to be the advantage of informal learning?
A.It allows for failures
B.It is entertaining
C.It charges no tuition
D.It meets practical need.
60.What does author seem to encourage educators to do at the end of the passage?
A.Train students to think about global issues.
B.Design more interactive classroom activities.
C.Make full use of informal learning resources.
D.Include collaborative inquiry in the curriculum.
第2题
What doesthe author say about startup investors?
A) They are especially wise in making investments.
B) They have good connections in the government.
C) They can do more than providing money.
D) They are enough to invest in nerds.
第3题
Mr. Harris cites the example of De Beers in order to show that______.
A.valuable things will value less in the connected world
B.feeling of dissatisfaction comes after easy fulfillment of desire
C.people are cheated to buy at a price higher than the real value
D.the more scarce a thing is, the more people treasure it
第4题
Who designed the first helicopter? Who(1)one of the most famous pictures in th
e world? Who knew more about the human body than most(2)? There is an answer
(3)all these questions - Leonardo de Vinci (达芬奇),Leonardo may have been the greatest genius(4)have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldn' t(5)a helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have worked. But Leonardo(6)an inventor. He was one of the greatest a rtists of his day. By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master painter, and as he got older he became(7)more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand ten different ways(8)he was ready to paint.Many of Leonardo' s wonderful paintings are still with(9) today. You may know one of his most famous works the(10)woman known as theMona Lisa.
1.A. took
B.made
C.painted
D.invented
2.A.artists
B.doctors
C.painters
D.people
3.A.to
B.of
C.for
D.from
4.A.the scientists
B.the artists
C.the world
D.people
5.A.draw
B.paint
C.work
D.build
6.A.was just
B.wasn't just
C.wasn't
D.was no longe
7.A.less
B.no
C.even
D.very
8.A.before
B.after
C.because
D.when
9.A.him
B.us
C.them
D.you
10.A.interesting
B.crying
C.smiling
D.surprising
第5题
Maria Mitchell(1818-1889,the first woman astronomer(天文学家)in the United States, was born in Nantucket. Massachusetts. Her parents valued education and insisted on giving her the same quality of education that boys received.
Her father. William Mitchell, was an astronomer and teacher himself. When he built his own school, Maria became a student and also a teaching assistant to him. At home. Marias father taught her to watch the stars and other natural objects in space using his personal telescope(望远镜).
Later she went to work at the library of the Nantucket Atheneum. Over the next tweny years. she further developed her interest in reading as many books as she could.She spent her nights watching the sky closely with her father.
On October 1, 1847,Maria discovered a comet(彗星 )by merely using a two-inch telescope. Some years before, King Frederick VI of Denmark had set up prizes to each discover of a"telescopic comet". The prize was to be given to the"first discoverer"of each such comet because comets were often discovered by more than one person.
There was once a question of who should be the winner. As the story goes, francesco de Vico had discovered the same comet two days later, but had reported it to the European vor. She won the prize in 1848 and became a big name the world over. The comet was named“ Miss mitchell&39;s Comet.”
What ean be learnt about Marias parents according to the text?
A.They came from low-income families.
B.They gave Maria equal chance for education
C.They were both astronomers
D.They were both teachers.
When did Franeeseo de Vico discover the comet?A.In1818
B.In1889
C.In1848
D.In1847
What problem did Maria meet with in winning the prize?A.She named the comet on her own
B.She did not use the required telescope.
C.She did not report her discovery in time
D.She discovered the comet with her father
Whe played the most important role in Maria's great achievement?A.King FrederickⅥ
B.Francesco de Vico
C.Her father
D.Her mother
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第7题
A.It was ...than
B.It was ...that
C.About ...that
D.It is ...then
第9题
A、Not more than 1 hour.
B、Not more than 2 hours.
C、More than 6 hours
第10题
A.1
B.4
C.3
D.2
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